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Description from extension meta
Cycle through last used Chrome tabs using keyboard shortcut.
Description from store
This extension tries to mimic the ALT+TAB behavior from Windows(or Command+TAB in Mac) to allow to switch between open tabs in a Most Recently Used fashion.
It remembers the order in which you switched tabs (made a tab active) and it updates its records so that you can switch to the recently used ones quickly.
Note: Sometimes after updating the extension the keyboard shortcut settings get reset. Hence you might want to set the desired keyboard shortcuts again in the keyboard shortcut settings in the Chrome Extensions page.
Alternatively, navigate to chrome://extensions/shortcuts from your address bar to change shortcuts.
Please rate and comment.
The project is made open source in GitHub:
https://github.com/harshayburadkar/clut-chrome-extension.git
Default Keys*:
ALT+W: Quick switch
ALT + S: Normal switch
ALT + Shift + S: Normal switch (in opposite direction)
*Keys can be changed in keyboard shortcut settings on the Chrome extensions page.
=Quick switch=:
Use for rapid switching to last tab (by pressing once) or to the second to last used tab(by pressing rapidly twice) and so on.
=Normal switch=:
Use when you want to look for a tab recently used but when you would want to go in a slower pace (needing to glimpse for a bit to see if it is the page you need)
Most other extensions meant to accomplish the same thing don’t work well since there are some limitations/difficulties in the Chrome API. This extension uses some basic algorithms and timers of intervals between key presses to get over these problems. That is the reason there is separate keys for quick and slower switches with different timer settings.
Features:
* Can cycle through ALL open tabs from all Chrome windows in a most recently used order
* Extension DOES NOT need access to any of your visited website's data
* Can work through tabs across different Chrome windows
* Snappy and fast switches
FAQ:
- Why are there two sets of shortcuts one for quick switch and one for a slower switch. Isn’t it possible to simplify like ALT+TAB behavior ?
A: There are some restrictions in Chrome API which makes it difficult to implement this feature in the most natural way. The intention was to make this extension work as close to Alt+Tab in Windows (or Cmd+Tab for Mac). Unfortunately due to these limitations though, this extension relies on time intervals in between your key presses. That is the reason there is a concept of quick switch (faster timer) and a normal switch (slower timer).
- Where can I change the shortcut key for switching tabs ?
A: To change shortcut, go to the Extensions pane in your Chrome browser. Press the menu icon
and find the Keyboard Shortcuts option in the list. You can change keyboard shortcuts of your installed extensions and apps here.
Alternatively, you can access and change extension keyboard shortcuts by going to this special address from your browser address bar.
chrome://extensions/shortcuts
Note: Few shortcuts may be not allowed to be set by Chrome if Chrome itself uses that shortcut or the shortcut is needed for system level operations.
Feel free to post feedback, comments and suggestions.
Latest reviews
- (2024-10-25) Guilherme Melo: uso demaaaaais. Edição: Por que encerrarão com ela? Como assim? Quero que ela permaneça.
- (2023-11-20) Louis Yang: New issue after the 2023 Nov Chrome update: It doesn't work for tabs that are in Group and have Save Group turned on. -- It works. The only issue is that the rendering of the browsing history is delayed by 1 or 2 sec, and it didn't keep track of Alt key. So if I press and release Alt+S twice within 2 second, it will not switch between current page and the last page. And, if I press Alt+S and releasing S but holding Alt, it will not continue cycling to the previous page when I press S again. (Basically, it didn't behave like the Alt + Tab in Windows.)
- (2023-11-20) Louis Yang: Seems to not working for some website anymore after recent Chrome update.
- (2023-10-10) Next to ad-block, and a password manager, this is an essential extension for me.
- (2023-08-08) Motto Bel: exactly what I need. Many thanks to the developer!
- (2023-07-13) YH_hao: alt+w
- (2023-07-12) 张冬冬: 在chrome://extensions/configureCommands or chrome://extensions/shortcuts可以设置快捷键（ change shortcuts）
- (2023-06-25) Ford: Awesome
- (2023-05-25) John M. Woodman: Stopped working. Uninstalled, reinstalled. Now it works again. (New version? Not sure.) Anyway, good extension. :-)
- (2023-03-27) PeaceBy Jesus: I could not change the shortcut keys to Ctrl+Tab in Chrome portable Version 111.0.5563.111 nor find any options under Manage extension, but I was able to change the shortcut key to Alt+1 to go to last accessed tab by going to chrome://extensions/shortcuts, (which is not part of the extensions menu). Thus while not being able to change the (apparently) absolutely forbidden (by Chrome - though Chromium-based browsers as Vivaldi do, as well as the superior Firefox) Ctrl+Tab switch yet CLUT (as well as the Previous Tab extension) enables alternative shortcut keys. It seems Google is determined not to allow changing Ctrl+Tab. See extension thread: https://superuser.com/questions/402095/switching-back-to-last-used-tab-on-chrome#:~:text=To%20switch%20to%20the%20most,(%20alt%20A%20on%20Windows).
- (2023-03-16) London L.: Great extension, but when loading any chat forum that's based on the Discourse plugin, the page fails to load (it rejects a lot of inline scripts). This made it unusable for me, as many of the resources I visit are chat forums.
- (2022-11-14) Stan James: I've been using this for four years now and can't imagine life without it. I just started using a new machine and thought Chrome was broken until I realized I hadn't installed this extension yet!
- (2022-10-24) Fabien: This extension is super useful, it does something that Chrome should have being doing out of the box for years (like Firefox for example)
- (2022-09-11) Anirudh Mv: Does the job because Chrome doesn't by default. 10/10 always install in all my chrome-based browsers that don't have LRU tab cycling
- (2022-09-10) Jimmy: Works perfectly and for me is indispensible for Chrome since I can't set the behavior with built in controls like Firefox. Well done.
- (2022-08-02) Great work! Simple and just does what it should
- (2022-07-27) Thomas Joli-Coeur: Love those one purpose nicely integrated extensions. Simple and efficient functionality with big productivity improvements. +1
- (2022-07-09) tabliqat chi: ALT+W works but ALT+S doesn't work.
- (2022-07-04) Nicolas Fischer (nicofisch5): Do what is expected!
- (2022-06-30) Chaofan Peng: life saver , save you lots of time! Thx dev
- (2022-06-10) kamajje: I added it and it just works, great work!
- (2022-05-26) John S: a life saver! I can't believe i used chrome for so long without this. It's criminal to not use this.
- (2022-05-23) UtmostCreator: Hi there. That is my first review in "chrome web store", and that is not because I am rarely using a browser, but rather because I have not noticed such a decent boost in my productivity during the work, until I faced your extension, and this extension is the best productivity boost in the entire "chrome web store". I had used a similar one (but the older ext. required me to install an .exe file, and it worked only on Windows systems), however this ext. works flawlessly and it is crossplatform(because there is no need шт anything else than the application itself)! That is a huge deal and a time saver for me!!! Since I switch them all the time! My favorite shortcut is CTRL + SHIFT + S to cycle btw 4 last tabs. I would appreciate it if you could do a toggle for only the last 2 tabs (or a separate shortcut for this) because sometimes I switch to the tab I did not want (in case I need to switch swiftly btw 2 last tabs.) I highly recommend everyone at least to try out this app, and I am sure you will adore it! All the best, UtmostCreator
- (2022-04-25) Francis Davin: At last!!! thanks
- (2022-04-07) Jerther: Works very well, and has been for years now! Suggestion --> I'd like an option to switch between tabs of active window only.
- (2022-03-14) Michaël Lemieux: Worked like a charm! Just a note that the combination on Mac is with the option button. I also linked the shortcut to my mouse scroll wheel button to quickly change tab while reading without keyboard.
- (2022-03-03) Emeka Orji: This is Good!
- (2022-02-21) Lenny Stendig: It works! Just what I was looking for...
- (2022-02-13) jiri vesely: Could be better, e.g. show preview of tabs you are cycling. But given current standards and there is absolutely nothing. This is work of genius... All these other extensions are not even usable in 99.9% cases... Imagine google is billion $ company and couldn't even include tab cycling, imbeciles, they are probably too busy making money to include even most basic functions one could think of... My only problem: it doesn't cycle continuously, I got 2 times back and then when I press forward: instead of switching to previous tab, it switches to first one I was initially on... Also it cycles back even to other windows, which is bad!
- (2022-02-11) Nicolas Ahumada: This is the extension I've been looking for!!! Thank you Harshay!!
- (2022-01-30) Alexandru Pănoiu: It works, and Chrome is much more useable with this extension.
- (2021-11-08) David GUEDJ: works very good ! thank you
- (2021-10-30) Quan Nguyen Minh: Chrome menu More tools> Extensions: choose 3 dashes> Keyboard shortcut... Find this extension to assign shortcut to it. I choose Alt+Q; it works perfectly and help me to jump between 2 recent tabs quickly.
- (2021-10-23) Miha Mlakar: Cool stuff!
- (2021-10-04) Sarah Miles: Simple and effective. Love that it mocks the functionality of the windows Alt+Tab command--giving you both the option to toggle between your current and previous tab, as well as cycle backwards and forwards through your active tab history. Found via stack-overflow :)
- (2021-10-02) Amity Kani-ok: Can I change the extension icon? It doesn't look expressive on the taskbar.
- (2021-09-16) Patrick Ng: I tried quite a few other solutions in the past, and found this one works the best!
- (2021-09-09) Andrey Asadchy: Using it all the time
- (2021-09-01) Joseph Joy: good job! made my life easier
- (2021-08-23) Николай Тучин: Лучшее расширение! Экономит время и нервы) Ну и да, странно что в хром до сих пор не завезли эту фичу. Лиса это умеет уже давным-давно, и это действительно очень полезная функция.
- (2021-08-17) hillel135: one of the best extensions I have, and a great time saver
- (2021-08-11) Rob Haughey: I've been using it for years. Super helpful and simple. My only question is why is this not standard Chrome behaviour?
- (2021-07-23) Boyang Xu: That's what I want. Thank you!
- (2021-07-13) NaCl Yen: AWESOME!! 我怎能到現在才搜尋此功能！！
- (2021-06-30) Akshaye Shenoi: No frills extension. Does exactly what it advertises.
- (2021-06-25) Samuist: Exactly what I need to simple dumb last tabs switch! No idea why this still not in Chrome default code!
- (2021-06-19) Bradley Willard: It's the best one out there. I know it's for 'clut'ing but it would also be nice to have the ability to alt-q repeatedly to scroll through all the tabs much like in Windows. Well done. I've used this extension for at least a couple years on several gmail accounts.
- (2021-06-02) Yizhao Lang: I was using the other more popular extension (Jason's Recent Tabs) until that one updated in April and required a lot more permissions for no obvious reasons. Switched to this one and got the same functionality with few permissions asked.
- (2021-05-17) Alexey Yegupоv: good extension
- (2021-04-27) Robert Vlach: Excellent! It does exactly what it should do without asking for unnecessary permissions.